Science Links for Week of 11/02/09

Popular Science

Megapixels: Thinking Cap

Cheap, Printed Solar LEDs To Light Up Off-Grid African Villages

Silk-Silicon Implantable Electronics Conform to Tissues, Then Melt Away

Stealth Wind Turbines Avoid Erasing Aircraft From Radar

Algae Used To Produce Green Plastics, Sans Petroleum

Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Five Milestones in the Ever-Evolving History of the Web

Muscle-Based PC Interface Lets You Literally Point and Click, No Mouse Required

Popular Mechanics

Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis

Car Industry Plans Shift to Low-Impact Refrigerant in A/C Systems

7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths

How Plane Technologies Affect the Titanium Market: Timeline

Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis

Discover Magazine

A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea

Military Taser Has 200-Foot Range-and Safety Concerns

Latest Mercury Pics Reveal Massive Craters & Possible Volcanic Vents

Golden Nanocages Could Deliver Cancer Drugs to Tumors

Mars is sublime

Cassini dances with Enceladus once again

Scientific American

Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way's Center?

How You Learn More from Success Than Failure

How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement

Stellar deal: NASA awards $2 million to X Prize winners for helping develop a lunar lander

Wireless tech taking a toll on Earth science and astronomy

Mining for Algae: Could Abandoned Mines Help Grow Biofuel?

Why Johnny can't hypothesize: A discussion about math and science education

Technology Review

A Genetically Engineered Rainbow of Bacteria

An App so You'll Never Forget

Wrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber

Ultracapacitor Startup Gets a Big Boost

Deriving the Arrow of Time

How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA

The Failing Future For Earthquake Forecasts

Ars Technica

You win some, you lose some: a review of Apple's Magic Mouse

Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk

Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers

Microsoft posts 140-page Windows 7 Product Guide

Stackable memory advance brings flash-killer closer to market

Science and Technology Links for the Week of 10/19/09

Popular Science-

Physicists Calculate Exact Number of Alternate Universes

iRobot's Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze

Video: Play Dungeons and Dragons on Microsoft's Surface Table

Apple's Magic Mouse Mates a Multitouch Trackpad With Traditional Pointer

A Hammer Is No Match For a Flexible OLED Display

New Neurological Evidence That the Internet Makes People Smarter

Ten Young Geniuses Shaking Up Science Today

Popular Mechanics-

4 Things the Barnes & Noble Nook Does Right, and 5 It Does Wrong

The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec

Exclusive Interview With Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto

PM Takes Project Natal For A Test Drive (With Video!)

New Drill Bit for F-35 Planes has Bonded Home-Grown Diamonds

Discover Magazine-

Who Killed All Those Honeybees? We Did

How Invaders Break Through the Brain's Great Wall

Is Alzheimer's Like a Strange Form of Brain Cancer?

Moon Plume Detected! NASA's Lunar Crash Wasn't a Flop, After All

The Sneaky Pain That Fooled 6 Experts

Scientific American-

Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception

Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House

How much are coral ecosystems worth? Try $172 billion--A year

Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn

Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes

It's all Chinese to me: Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese

Technology Review-

Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab

Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells

Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses

Dye-Sensitized Solar to Go

Intelligence Explained - Actually, this particular article is about the use of MRI with a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map out the circuits of the brain's white matter, and how that circuitry might correspond to intelligence.

Ars Technica-

Windows 7 is here

LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks

Magic Mouse: Oh my God-it's full of capacitive sensors! - This relates to Apples new multi-touch mouse for the Mac.

30 years of failure: the username/password combination

DRAM study turns assumptions about errors upside down

Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser

Permanence in motion: electrons rock around the clock